Terry Castle

Terry Castle (born 1953), once described by Susan Sontag as "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," has published eight books, including the anthology The Literature of Lesbianism, which won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award. She writes on topics ranging from 18th-century ghost stories to World War I era lesbianism to the so-called "photographic fringe." Her essays appear regularly in the London Review of Books, the Atlantic, and the New Republic.

The daughter of British parents, Castle was born in San Diego and lived in England and Southern California as a child. She attended the University of Puget Sound and graduated in 1975 with a B.A. in English. She went on to attend the University of Minnesota to get her Ph.D. in English.

Castle has begun experimenting in new media; her recent art, including a range of self portraits, may be viewed on her website.

A longtime resident of San Francisco, Castle is currently Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Bibliography

• Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's 'Clarissa' (1982) ISBN 0-801-41495-4
• Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (1986) ISBN 0-804-71468-1
• The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993) ISBN 0-231-07652-5
• The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (1995) ISBN 0-195-08098-X
• Noel Coward and Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits (1996) ISBN 0-231-10597-5
• Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing (2002) ISBN 0-415-93874-0
• Courage, Mon Amie (2002) ISBN 1-873-09203-2
• The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology From Ariosto To Stonewall (2003) ISBN 0-231-12511-9
• The Professor and Other Writings (2010) ISBN 0-061-67090-1

External links

• Terry Castle's website
• Terry Castle's blog
• Terry Castle Interviewed on "The 7th Avenue Project" Radio Show
• Desperately Seeking Susan - London Review of Books
• Travels with My Mom - London Review of Books
• Response to Desperately Seeking Susan